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[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] – Antique Photo Print

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [1899 or 1900] — historic photograph
[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front], [1899 or 1900]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Framed closely from the head and shoulders, this Georgia sitter looks straight into the lens with a calm, direct gaze. He appears in an album of portraits from 1899 and 1900 compiled by W.E.B. Du Bois, then a scholar at Atlanta University, under the title *Types of American Negroes*. The series was assembled for the American exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900, where Du Bois aimed to counter caricatured images of Black Americans with dignified, individual portraits. The print is a gelatin silver photograph, a process widely used in the 1890s.

Created / published[1899 or 1900]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Gelatin silver prints 1890-1900.
NotesIn album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 178. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Men--Georgia--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,309 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-200712

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